Ghosts of Gold Mountain - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railway

Gordon H. Chang

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2019

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-10: 1328618579

From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would suffer a different kind of death—a historical one, as they were pushed first to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.